its not about coasters. probably noone gets coasters anymore (unless clicked on 'cancel' by mistakeI don't know why some of you are getting coasters at high speeds, but I burn at 24x all the time and never have gotten a coaster because of that.
When you burn data off hdd its all OK, but problem may appear with on-the-fly high speed copying of existing discs.
I.e. many people dont have fast enough reading drives, or they have dvd-rom and cd burner on their pc. Most of dvd-roms or cd-roms with advertised 40x (or better) reading speed actually do read at 10-12x only when CD-R is read - i.e. one of my sony dvd-roms was reading CD-Rs at 6x speed only! (yeah, they probably do read at their advertised speed from factory-made silver-pressed discs, but reading CD-R or DVD-R is whole different story). So when you copy on the fly from cd/dvd-rom at actual speed of say 12x, and your burner is set to write it at 24x, what do you think happens? burn-proofing helps for short periods of time, but not when input datarate is constantly much less than expected. It takes very good dvd-rom or cd-rom to have fast enough output (when playing CD-Rs) to copy them at 24x or faster. So far I found very few cd-roms and none dvd-rom to be able to constantly output data at 32x off CD-R discs (i.e. cheap LG GCR-8520B with firmware 1.01 does it, while my previous Asus 56x cdrom barely could reach 18x off SVCD discs).
I trade lots of discs by mail, and very often discs copied at high speed have tons of errors on them (im talking VCD, SVCD).
When first 52x burners appeared on the market I knew I will be getting more and more bad discs or discs with many errors, and I immediately added warning on my trading pages that if i find VCD/SVCD copied at too high speed i will not keep my part of trade. There is example of such disc in my trade rules section here http://derex888.dvdripz.org/ it was made intentionaly (cd-r was copied on-the-fly at 24x off sony ddu-220 dvd-rom that cant read CD-Rs faster than 8x).
See for yourself. Error sections like this show up throughout entire disc.
I dont say YOU have this problem, but I am sure many people dont even know why their copies have more errors than original discs (especially if coies are made for trade they wont even notice it).
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Well everyone can say all they want but i have been useing the plextor PX 504a for a week now testing it burned about 50 +R useing only the free program for here and Nero for the DVD and have not had one bad one yet useing also +RW the best i have seen. Dont know why anyone would buy anything else. Cost about $230.00 to $279.00
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Originally Posted by tww1
Someone might ask: why would anyone buy anything other than ND-1100A? -
Originally Posted by Kennyshin
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Originally Posted by vitualis
It was no rhetoric since NEC ND-1100A does provide more power for less money.
You just cannot stop personal attacks rather than concentrating on the drives.
And I wonder why you obmitted the rest of my post.
I'm not sure what your point is but I said so because the ND-1100a is a good drive that offers better features at lower cost. Since the time I posted about the price difference of Plextor PX-W504A and NEC ND-1100A, Plextor lowered their price to under US$150 to distributors so that the retail street price could be around US$170, still a bit higher than NEC ND-1100A and other OEM units based on it. Even the retail Pioneer DVR-A06 and Sony DRU-500AX cost just US$200 per unit in June 2003. -
Originally Posted by Kennyshin
Please try to get a better grasp of English.
What I meant was, nicw posted what he did as a jibe (i.e., a joke -- you understand what a joke/humour is don't you?).
This joke was in the form of an obvious answer to what seemed to be a rhetorical question.
Your statement:
Someone might ask: why would anyone buy anything other than ND-1100A?
BTW, a "rhetorical question" is one where a statement is made in giving the question. That is in your above statement of "Someone might ask: why would anyone by anything other than ND-1100A" it seems that you are not so much asking the question but rather saying that the particular drive is very good.
nicw understands this completely. He "answered" your rhetorical question (and hence the humour) plus added some of his opinions as well.
That was HIS point. He wasn't making any comment on the drive at all but I think you missed that.
I suggest you phrase your posts more carefully.
As to:
And I wonder why you obmitted the rest of my post.
PLEASE read things carefully and think things through before making further posts.
Regards.Michael Tam
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Originally Posted by vitualis
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LG GMA-4040B (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM) OEM price: US$130
LG GMA-4040B Retail price: US$200 - US$250
Some of the Japanese DVD writer manufacturers are going to give up the market very soon. Buffalo has already gave up Sony. -
Maybe we wouldn't buy that NEC because of the POOR TASTE NEC left in the mouth of the American consumer when it used to make COMPUTERS under the brand name PACKARD BELL
We hated these machines Kennshin
and NEC would have to bend over backawrds to remove the bad will 6 years of making these trash heaps caused! -
Originally Posted by dcsos
Whether some of the US consumers hate NEC brand or not, it's the OEM buyers that decide whom to buy from. The major US PC makers chose NEC. And they wanted NEC to provide 4x Plus-only drives instead of the original NEC ND-1100A which could write to DVD-R and DVD-RW as well. The drive was at the US FCC lab in mid-2002 and NEC gave up the strategy to concentrate on Plus first. Those names are Dell, HP, and more. Of course, many of them will choose or have already switched to LG. -
Do you know even tho they're re-invented their brand as LG electronics..
Isn't this just the GOLDSTAR company that makes all manner of cheap electonics in KOREA
Is the L.G. brand supposed to be a better product? (to compete with the JAPANESE)
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I give up. Kenny, my last post was in good intent. I was trying to help you understand how your were being misunderstood because of how you were phrasing your post.
If you can't see help that you need (i.e., a better grasp of English rather than any technical advice) that's offered on a silver platter, then I won't bother anymore.
Not everything you don't understand is a "personal attack" Kenny.
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Originally Posted by dcsos
Some people in South Korea now can buy LG GMA-4040B for under US$150 per unit. LG is going to dominate DVD writer market worldwide by the end of this year. -
Originally Posted by vitualis
You could always have ignored my posts. You didn't. You instead picked up fights every time you could. That's a job not of a moderator but a problem maker.
And your English is not much better than many of other posters here, hardly much beyond mind at all. Lose your self-respect a little.
If you were that smart, you should have admitted how biased you were and how wrongfully you acted in the past whether it was out of ignorance or prejudice. -
Kenny, you are beyond hope.
I was trying to explain to you how you posted a rhetorical question without realising it. Obviously, you prefer to believe that by attacking me you vindicate yourself. Well, if that is your take on life, so be it.
Regards.Michael Tam
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Originally Posted by Kennyshin
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